Look, everyone knows E3 is lifeless. Effectively, no less than the occasion that we knew as E3 is lifeless – there’s one thing referred to as Iicon that is strutting arond sporting the lifeless E3’s garments however we predict it is liable to be one thing of an imposter. It is a pruely B2B occasion, for a begin.
However we have, no less than, acquired options. There’s the Keighley-backed Summer time Video games Fest that is rising and rising yearly (even when it would not but maintain a candle to our dearly departed Digital Leisure Expo). Then there’s additionally IGN Dwell. Aimed extra at followers than it’s at journos and businessmen, IGN Dwell will return this June for a second 12 months, and it plans to be greater and higher as a bodily occasion than final 12 months’s Los Angeles-based blowout.
IGN Dwell will as soon as once more be primarily based at LA’s Magic Field downtown occasion house, and can function hands-on oppurtunities for unreleased video games, a stage with contemporary reveals and trailers, interviews, and superstar panels. It is like all of the bits you cared about at E3 with none of the backroom offers the place execs would shake fingers and waggle on about video games that might most likely by no means get launched.
The large higlights that stand out from final 12 months embrace an interview with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy’s forged, an interview and sneak peek for the upcoming Borderlands film, and a few contemporary Greedfall 2 gameplay.
If you wish to go and see what all the excitement is about for your self (and nab your self some extra particulars on dates and tickets after they’re obtainable), merely head over to this hyperlink.
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